{"product_id":"norwegian-wood-vintage-classics-haruki-murakami-9781529957716","title":"Norwegian Wood: Vintage Classics (Paperback) (2025)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the world\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAutumn 1969, and soon I would be 20.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire – to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e***************\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eHaruki Murakami (Author)\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/em\u003e, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Wild Sheep Chase\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHard-Boiled Wonderland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eand the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e, but it was\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12.7 x 2.6 x 19.6 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46926723350685,"sku":"9781529957716","price":79.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/norwegian_wood_haruki_murakami_9781529957716.jpg?v=1749801004","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/norwegian-wood-vintage-classics-haruki-murakami-9781529957716","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}